He's getting away without being punished.
He likely has done both good and bad.
He's old enough there is no point in wasting money on the trial.

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Essentially the pardon just saves taxpayers some money imo. For all intents and purposes it acknowledges he made mistakes (hence pardon) and saves us tax payers time and money.

All while undermining the judicial branch. His conviction was on contempt of court. Meaning it is a bit of a different legal thing than the crime itself. He was also not sentenced yet.

All this sends is that if you are a friend of Trump than you will get out of jail free for whatever you do.

It is also good to know that so long as you do good and bad things the law should not really apply to you. I mean the guy bragged about his tent cities being like concentration camps. Seems like an upstanding guy.